1.   A two-year wage freeze in the public sector is a key plank in the plan.

2.   President Boris Yeltsin made army reform a key plank in his reelection campaign.

3.   The Camisea gas venture is a key plank in the plan.

4.   The disagreement also is proving politically tricky for Bush and Hutchison because Gramm has made his welfare proposal a key plank in his presidential campaign.

5.   Vietnam Communist Party chief Do Muoi opened Parliament with an attack on corruption and renewed support for the state sector as a key plank in upholding the economy.

6.   Dogged by the widely unpopular war, Yeltsin made peace in Chechnya a key plank of his re-election platform.

7.   Key planks of the Gore platform have been ignored, he said.

8.   Regular policy-making summits between the fledgling Belfast administration and Irish government constitute a key plank of the Good Friday accord.

9.   Ironically, the seven-year plan is a key plank in the Republican legislative agenda.

10.   But the army suspended its pullout of the West Bank, a key plank in the autonomy accords, and sealed off the Palestinian territories.